Runaway bride. New AmsterdamFans are still reeling from the finale of season 4, which saw Helen Sharpe leave Max Goodwin at his altar.
The Tuesday, May 24, episode began with a Category-4 hurricane suddenly changing course and heading straight towards New York for Helen’s wedding weekend.Freema Agyeman) isn’t even in the country yet. She’s still in England and Max (Ryan Eggold() is concerned about her flight being delayed.
Max is kept busy at the hospital throughout the storm. However, he still finds the time to text Helen repeatedly, but Helen does not respond immediately. The doctor hopes his fiancée is safe on her flight and finally gets a text from her that simply said, “Today has been … I have no words. Will call you ASAP.”
He tracks the flight and confirms that it landed safely. He then makes new plans for their wedding. Their nuptials were all set for the botanical gardens, but Max says the venue isn’t an option after the mess the storm left behind. He decided to move his ceremony to the hospital rooftop. He leaves Helen a voicemail telling her that “this place has always been magic” since it’s where they met and fell in love.
Ryan Eggold, Sandra Mae Frank, and Conner Marx on ‘New Amsterdam.’ Ralph Bavaro/NBC
The doctor doesn’t seem concerned that he hasn’t heard from Helen since her text message. Helen calls him while he is standing in his suit, in front of their friends at the rooftop. She wasn’t on the flight.
“I can’t,” she tearfully told him from London.
Max is devastated. “She’s not coming,” the shocked groom said.
He wasn’t the only one whose head was spinning. Fans couldn’t believe that Helen would do this to Max, and they made their disappointment clear on Twitter after the New Amsterdam finale aired.
“It quite literally makes no sense that HELEN SHARPE would abandon max…? Since SEASON ONE EPIDE ONE, helen has returned to new amsterdam in search of max that’s literally canon so ???? what the f–k ???” one Sharpwin shipper tweeted.
Another asked, “They made Helen show up for max every single time even when it came at the cost of her happiness but we’re supposed to believe she didn’t show on the most important day of their lives??”
Some believe there’s more to the story. “Rewatching this I know for a FACT Helen didn’t leave Max at the alter,” one viewer declared. “She’s clearly devastated and more importantly she’s in the same clothes from last night (earlier in the episode). Do I hate this? YES! She would never hurt him like that. Something really bad happened.”
While Eggold hasn’t directly spoken out about Helen and Max’s wedding shocker, the 37-year-old hinted that something big was coming when he exclusively spoke to Us Weekly last month.
“There’s a big change coming for Helen that affects their relationship,” he told Us in late April. “It’s a challenge that I won’t spoil, but I think it’s a surprise that’s coming that they have to navigate. It’s something really new to deal with.”
The good news? The cliffhanger is over. New AmsterdamNBC has renewed the series for a fifth and final year. It is expected to air in the fall.
